A Research-Based Development Economics Course for Undergraduates

We present details of a research-based course in development economics taught at a private liberal arts college to undergraduates. There were three key elements in this class: first, teaching of applied econometrics, second, group presentations reviewing published and working papers in development economics, and third, using concepts taught in class to write an original research paper. The project needed to use econometric analyses on an existing data set that was available online to answer a question in development economics. We illustrate how the three elements of the class complemented each other and provide a case study as an example.

Keywords: teaching development economics, upper-level elective, applied econometrics

JEL Classification: O12, A22, A13

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Singh, Prakarsh and Guo, Hongye and Morales, Alvaro, A Research-Based Development Economics Course for Undergraduates (September 28, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2332972 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2332972